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Stars and Sewers
Is technology rewiring our brains to be more callous? 
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A Monopoly on Cheating
By SAM LIPSYTE
Why we should root for our children to filch Chance cards and paper money. Comment
FRANK RICH
The G.O.P.’s Post-Tucson Traumatic Stress Disorder
The Republicans are adrift with a shortfall of substance, offering the president a golden chance to seize the moment. Comment
BOB HERBERT
The Human Cost of Budget Cutting
More necessary now than ever, community action agencies are threatened with draconian cuts.
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The Cuts the Pentagon Missed
Defense Secretary Robert Gates was right to propose cuts in the Pentagon’s budget, but he did not go far enough.
- Nicholas D. Kristof is off today.
Thomas L. Friedman is on book leave.
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Democracy Welcomed, but Risk Remains
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The Op-Ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof on the withdrawal of security forces from Pearl Square and Bahrain's democratic future.
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Why We Need Women in War Zones
By KIM BARKER
Lara Logan’s brave decision to go public breaks a long code of silence.
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Money Won’t Buy You Health Insurance
By DONNA DUBINSKY
The market for health insurance is broken, even for those who are able to pay for it.
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My Polluted Kentucky Home
By SILAS HOUSE
Mountaintop removal ruins lives as well as the environment.
Opinionator | Disunion
Lincoln Center
By TED WIDMER
Lincoln cracks jokes, then goes to the opera, where he becomes the butt of one.
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Cry Havoc
By JOHN ANDREWS and DWIGHT PITCAITHLEY
How the Bard shaped American political conversation on the eve of the Civil War.
Editorial
The Unemployed Need Not Apply
Barriers to employment for jobless workers may be even higher than previously thought.
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Will Egypt Be a Partner in Peace?
By MICHAEL B. OREN
Israel welcomes change, but the Camp David pact must hold.
Editorial
This Just In ...
President Obama is neither a foreigner nor a Muslim. These facts do not seem to matter in many quadrants of the Republican Party.
ARTHUR S. BRISBANE
Datelines and the Road Warriors
Why do some writers seem to be in two places at the same time?
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Qaddafi’s New Face
The novelist Hisham Matar on Libya’s public relations drive in the West.
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Delirious Joy in Bahrain
By NICHOLAS KRISTOF
It’s amazing to see a site of bloodshed a few days ago be reclaimed and become a center of jubilation.
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What Makes Community Health Care Work?
By TINA ROSENBERG
Five factors that help programs in poor villages without doctors succeed.
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Cairo in the Midwest?
By TOBIN HARSHAW
Will Wisconsin's battle over state employees create a domino effect?
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